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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. The Saturday Subgroup programs are heavily attended and include exciting scientific symposia, awards presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each Subgroup. Subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

Saturday Subgroup Symposium programs will be available for viewing in October.

In 2025, the Subgroup symposia will be divided into the following sessions:

Morning Sessions (8:30 AM - 12:30 PM) Afternoon Sessions (1:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism Bioengineering
Biological Fluorescence Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Biopolymers in Vivo Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies
Channels, Receptors & Transporters Mechanobiology
Cryo-EM Membrane Structure and Function
Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic Membrane Transport
Nanoscale Approaches Motility and Cytoskeleton
Physical Cell Biology Multiscale Genome Organization
Theory & Computation Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation and 
Visualization

 

For more information on Subgroups and how to join, click here

Mechanobiology

Subgroup Chair: Amit Pathak, Washington University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 501ABC

Business Meeting:  10:25AM - 10:35AM PST

 

Speakers:

1:35 PM Johanna Ivaska, University of Turku, Finland
Integrin Modulation of Cellular Mechanoresponses

 

2:00 PM Daniel Cohen, Princeton University, ISA
Adventures in Cellular Herding: Controlling Collective Cell Biophysics

 

2:25 PM Stephanie Fraley, University of California, San Diego, USA
How Cells Sense Degradability

 

2:50 PM Pilnam Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Rewiring Mechanocoupling of the ECM-Cytoskeleton-Nucleus Axis  in a 3D Tissue-Equivalent ECM Model

 

4:10 PM Jianping Fu, University of Michigan, USA
Bioengineering Human Embryo and Organ Models

 

4:35 PM Kara Garcia, Indiana University, USA
Mechanobiology in the Developing Brain: The Lasting Impact of Developmental Stress Fields on Neuronal Morphology and Tissue Organization

 

5:00 PM Zev Gartner, University of California, San Fransisco, USA
Building Tissues to Understand How Tissues Build Themselves





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